This guidebook, published by Prime Ministry “General Directorate of State Archives”, gives bibliographic information about Ottoman Archives. It also has explanations about archival materials. The sections are:

Online searching of Ottoman Archives

Online searching for Republican and Ottoman Archives is available at http://www.devletarsivleri.gov.tr/. The website is in Turkish; English website is in process (2007-07-05). But when going for catalog searching (KATALOG TARAMA), English searching is available.

This guidebook, published by General Directorate of Ottoman Archives, comprises of information about the catalogs and records (defterler) in Ottoman Archives. Preface gives information about what classifications had been done before this guidebook for the Ottoman Archives. There are annotations of these records and catalogs as well as charts explaining each document’s

volume number (fon/cilt nu),

classification code (Tasnif kodu),

classification name (Tasnif adi),

years in Mohammedan and Gregorian calendar (ihtiva ettigi yillar),

explanations (Aciklamalar), and

number of pages (Sayfa adedi).

Catalogs and records are arranged alphabetically by title. Combined index by title and subject is alphabetically arranged.

There is an appendix on

a) the codes (abbreviations) used for Ottoman Archives.

b) a table of all the sultans and grand viziers and their administration years (from the foundation to the corruption)

c) the publications by General Directorate of State Archives, Ottoman Archives Unit, Republican Archives Unit, Documentation Unit (within each section, they are arranged chronologically)

Osmanli fermanlari
Ottoman fermans

Authors: Ismet Binark; Necati Aktas

Publication Date: 1994

ISBN: 9751905850 9789751905857

OCLC: 33290005

This bibliography, published by The General Directorate of the State Archives, comprises of selected manuscripts from Prime Ministry Ottoman Archives, which carry great historical and artistic value. These selected manuscripts about Ottoman Empire (1281-1922) are listed chronologically. In the bibliography, the earliest selected manuscript was written in 1575, and the last one was written in 1848. The information below is listed for each entry:

Period

Date

Type of Script

Size

Imperial Cipher (Tugra) and Illumination

Arrangement and Issuing

Subject

Repository

No index at the end, but there is a Glossary for some Ottoman words and a bibliography.

Bibliography on manuscript libraries in Turkey and the publications on the manuscripts located in these libraries.

Authors: Nimet Bayraktar; Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu; Mihin Lugal

Publication Date: 1995

Publication: Istanbul: Research Center for Islamic History, Art and Culture

Format: Book xxix p., 337 p. : col. ill. ; 25 cm.

Language: Turkish

OCLC: 34287664

This bibliography, published by Research Centre for Islamic History Art and Culture (IRCICA), comprises of manuscripts in Turkish libraries. This work focuses on the publications dated until the end of 1990. However, as an exception to this limitation, the available information on some catalogues of manuscripts in the related sections of this book is added.

There are 3 sections:

Libraries of Manuscript Works, and the Bibliography on them. A guide to the libraries, where Islamic manuscripts are located, lists the libraries under study according to their location in the present administrative units of Turkey such as provinces and counties, which are arranged alphabetically.

Bibliography on Libraries. Lists 136 books and articles and books located more than one library, in alphabetical order of the names of the authors.

Bibliography of Publications about the Manuscript Works located in the Libraries of Turkey. Lists 1390 publications about the works located in the collections of these libraries in alphabetical order of the names of authors

This bibliography, published by Georg Olms Verlag, is in 3 volumes and comprises of the Arabic, Persian, and Turkish manuscripts in (from…to…) Kaiserlich-Königlichen Royal Library. The second volume of this medieval bibliography can be found online: